Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
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I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home.
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My divorce wasn't fun.
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
